Surprises....!

These are just a few of the surprises we have seen in and around our yard in the last couple of weeks.  As I've shared before, it is exciting to see what comes up and blooms in the spring since the first time we ever saw the house was last fall!   We never know from one day to the next what new discovery awaits!

We were pleasantly surprised to see the daffodils and grape hyacinths...but the tulips, oh, yeah....I loooove me some tulips! 

The iris have already set a few buds....can't wait to see what color they are.  Let's see...I also discovered quite a few lily of the valley in several different places....especially this bed back by the shed

(don't worry...we WILL be finding a bowl for the bird bath).  We have a number of flowering fruit trees...hmmm, wonder what we'll have besides apples. 

Sure hope it isn't peaches since I am allergic!

The dogwood we finally deduced was a dogwood is beginning to bloom...still the greenish "brackets", but it should be a beautiful white in the next few days.  It is growing right beside one of the support columns for the back entry porchway and is VERY straight for a dogwood.  I'm thinking we might have to move it so it will have room to stretch and grow.

AND in a very ironic twist, I find I have several lilacs on the side of the house!  Understand, I said I would NEVER have lilacs (hated picking my own switches from the lilac bush when I was a kid)....guess things come full circle, tho' all grandkids can rest easy...no switches from MY lilac bushes!

In addition to all the lovely flowering and blooming things we have discovered in our yard, we encountered this fuzzy little creature last week while cleaning up one of the back landscape beds....

And then this morning, we saw this bluebird pair on top of....of all, things

...the bluebird house!  We loved watching the male go fetch the worm and then bring it back to the female.  Whatcha wanna bet it was going to go into the mouths of some hungry little birds inside that house?  I like to think so, anyway!

Here's hoping you have some neat "discoveries" this week.